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[stevenaleach@universeodon.com]

@cmconseils Imaging what the internet would be like without ad blockers. Wow. That would literally mean no YouTube.

[verenarupp@social.vivaldi.net]

@cmconseils Or we use an ad blocker.

[numodular@c.im]

@cmconseils Yeah, it's not OURtube.

Yours,
Capitalism

[stevenaleach@universeodon.com]

@cmconseils Theory: Ad Blockers are a good thing for the advertising industry, YouTube included, because it removes us -- the folks who respond negatively to ads (thus bad for the company/brand/service if we see or hear them, better off that we *might* see the product on a shelf without already hating it) from the mix while keeping things seamless - we can share links to content with others and view links to content they send us - but we just never realize or think about the fact that "everyone else" is seeing (and maybe even paying attention to) ads inserted. Everyone that it offends has opted out, and those that haven't have gotten used to it, some might even enjoy it, and many actually pay attention to the ads as if they were actual content.

[jonathangulbrandsen@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils @lisamelton YouTube Premium pays 55% of its revenue to creators directly.

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils

Welcome to neoliberal capitalism!

[liquidlamp@hachyderm.io]

@renardboy @Legit_Spaghetti @cmconseils add sponsorblock as well. It uses community notes to auto skip the YouTuber ad reads and promos.

Its amazing how well it works. Right after any big youtuber releases a video, it skips over them. Even smaller youtubers will ad skip within a few minutes of release, and if not, the plugin let's you easy annotate the start - stop to help others.

[rixer@veganism.social]

@alterelefant @cmconseils poor google, that is barely able to scrap by with all their honest business practices. You really know how to look out for honesty and decency! Nice post.

[nilz@norden.social]

@cmconseils

Companies pay Amazon Prime Video to show ads.

We pay Amazon Prime not to show us ads.

Amazon continues to show us ads nevertheless.

We pay Amazon extra money to stop.

[hardindr@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils YouTube Premium makes the platform bearable…

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@Rixer
I know, Google barely comes by and needs all our support. /sarcasm
@cmconseils

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils Companies pay YT and we use adblockers...

[steeph@queerchen.de]

@cmconseils Um, no, not exactly. YouTube is asking us to pay them and then we donate to our favourite Invidious host and watch YouTube through that.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@cmconseils @the5thColumnist LOL. Your alttext bot does not recognise Will Farrell .

[gnomebones@toot.wales]

@cmconseils DLNA it by sharing a video from YouTube on one device to the DLNA device locally and bypass the adverts.

[yacc143@mastodon.social]

@alterelefant
Now, the cool thing about the internet is that if you want to publish things that works (or worked) perfectly fine without these so called platforms.

That are more or less a for of digital leeches sucking money out of the economy.

So no I don't see the value here beside that they've captured nowadays most content, so one is forced to deal with them.
@cmconseils

[yacc143@mastodon.social]

@fogti
It's actually an attention/eyeball economy. It's literally called that in certain contexts.

@cmconseils

[momentstories@mastodon.social]

@cmconseils YouTube advertisers and users to YouTube

[niavy@masto.bike]

@hardindr
So do open-source apps like Newpipe.
@cmconseils

[tuxicoman@social.jesuislibre.net]

@cmconseils i don't see the conflict